i was so excited about the news yestertday. and, it's so great to share the joy of the two journalists' safe return with everyone who had awaited and seen how things would turn out around the blobe, via your blog, isn't it?

I really enjoy your blog. Your eye is consistently exceptional, and I appreciate the spare layout of your writing, too.

Liking it so much, I find myself wanting form to meld with content all the way through. Especially for such an intensely felt piece as this.

The problem with using such a 'poetic' text layout is that it can encourage hyperbole ('EVERY journalist's nightmare') and affectations ('our freed COMRADES'. When was the last time you referred to your friends as 'comrades'?)

Also, technically-speaking, you put apostrophes where inappropriate and leave them out where needed:

You may say it doesn't matter, but as a writer, I read with the same love for and keen, natural sense of the right and even sublime in meaning as you so keenly and accurately see the right and sublime* in the visual.

As, guessing from your consistently discerning, sophisticated, genuine and loving eye, you crave in the visual the same clarity and consciousness that I crave in text, a clarity that helps me enter it completely, love it, feel it, embrace its vision, not stand apart from it, distrust it.

I imagine that some may be initially moved to rebuke me for responding to such an emotional piece with a technical remark. They would be misunderstanding that my response is simply wishing more of form so that I can more deeply and trustingly access content.

*and even transcendent. Masters of an art, of course, can push the envelope toward an 'un-right' that's yet newly right.